Lol Hogan would have NEVER taken that bump in the USA

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Road Warriors put Hogan &amp; Tenryu up in double press slams! (SWS • 3.30.1991) <a href="https://t.co/lPwsQMqMDW">pic.twitter.com/lPwsQMqMDW</a></p>&mdash; Vintage Puroresu プロレス (@vintagepuro) <a href="https://twitter.com/vintagepuro/status/1540942901001289728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Sonny Onoo does not speak Japanese lol. That mask is so cool. The angle was a complete bomb and it's still cool as hell.

That is amazing. He really was a different worker in Japan.

Those SWS/WWF shows are on YouTube. They are an interesting watch.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Never gonna not be amazed by this. Toyota with an incredible springboard into the Sunset Flip! <a href="https://twitter.com/PuroresuFlow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PuroresuFlow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/vintagepuro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@vintagepuro</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ItsEvolutionPod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ItsEvolutionPod</a> <a href="https://t.co/mGnx5PKzz0">pic.twitter.com/mGnx5PKzz0</a></p>&mdash; Big Wood (@BigWoodieStyle) <a href="https://twitter.com/BigWoodieStyle/status/1540718355010789376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I was coincidentally just listening to a podcast about them.

Man, Japanese wrestling used to be so cool.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One Bears great paying his respects to another -- <a href="https://twitter.com/olin_kreutz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@olin_kreutz</a> and Steve McMichael. <a href="https://t.co/kFw0M5wNez">pic.twitter.com/kFw0M5wNez</a></p>&mdash; Dan Pompei (@danpompei) <a href="https://twitter.com/danpompei/status/1540834497012420609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Jesus, :(

I remember that article where he got the chair and he's looking at it seemingly thinking "so this is my future". Doesn't even look like he got to use it much at all, seems to be confined to bed. :nono:

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The most ambitious SSP attempt of all time <a href="https://t.co/6ERA7PkZUE">pic.twitter.com/6ERA7PkZUE</a></p>&mdash; Rob Naylor (@NINaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NINaylor/status/1541509173581684736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That had to be a Senton Bomb and not a SSP right?? :rofl:

Lol apparently Vader had nailed the SSP in practice but bailed out on this attempt.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">His son Jesse told me numerous times Vader hit the SSP with ease in the family pool &amp; Vader when he visited FCW confirmed such when I asked. Kudos to him for going extra mile on major shows. I’ll never forget his 1st moonsault at Beach Blast 93. Mind-blowing.</p>&mdash; Rob Naylor (@NINaylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NINaylor/status/1541510578275078144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Of course Vader and his son said he hit it like Liger behind closed doors lol

i have no doubt vader could have hit it

No reason he couldn't have, he was already capable of a moonsault, ssp is basically just flipping the other way.

Vader is the one big guy I wouldn't be worried about attempting something like that.

Vader was very iffy on a lot of standard moves let alone turnbuckle moves, i've seen him german suplexing people and them landing on the top of their head, sometimes he'd chokeslam people and they would end up landing hard on the back of their head etc. That guy he hurt badly took a bad chokeslam landing first then the hard powerbomb landing high on his shoulders.

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yeah thats what made him great

that first clip vader had to fuck that kid up.

first the kid doesnt bump off the vader attack. vader hits the kid. he gives it away but honestly doesnt sell it half as much as it actually hurt. vader choke slams the kid on his head. why? the kid is no selling him. he's the world heavy weight champion and this bum aint workin with him. its ignorance on the kids part but that cant matter. so the kid gets up from this outragoues choke slam in seconds. fuck. ok i guess. vader has to keep going. not like he can not keep working. so he bombs the kid. as hard as he can.

when youre in this position internally youre praying the idiot hears what your actions are saying. he should know what each of us is getting paid to do. this idiot didnt. not on vader. and vader isnt taking liberties either.

and the 2nd video is is 80% puro. home of the "high and tight" aka the shoulder bump. its deliberate and desirable for both parties.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jimmy Yang showing off some of his unreal agility with this flip. <a href="https://t.co/snKgUfmkcF">pic.twitter.com/snKgUfmkcF</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1541613204421361664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yes Vader was stiff and roughed people up a bit but he's not the only one who had that kind of old school mentality. I can't recall many instances at all where he unintentionally had a major botch that ended in a serious or career ending injury.

vader would totally take liberties with job guys. im just sayin those above arent examples of it

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vader powerbombed this dude’s spine crooked. <a href="https://t.co/1SZIOAzArZ">pic.twitter.com/1SZIOAzArZ</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1540157321292161025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I think it looks great and I didn't even know what Puroresu wrestling was until I started posting here and I got put on to the awesomeness of Japanese wrestling. I also notice the non Japan wrestlers in that video are guys llke Mick Foley and Rick Steiner who also have wrestled in Japan so many times and are accustomed to that style. I don't think that video illustrates the same point as the first video at all.

But he is far from the only one to do that lol I was actually just watching a video the other day of several wrestlers obliterating jobbers...I think it might have even been posted by Gertner or someone else on here

job guys used to get paid really well. better than a lot of the boys. they could only make money for a short ammount of time and you needed to pay a guy pretty well to get utterly obliterated. the jobbers knew the score.

you were going to be beaten and badly. and the talent knew they needed to fuck em up pretty good too. the other guys were going to annihilate them. the same marks are mentally going to compare how you handle random job guy no.2 to how the other named talent did. they think this is real after all. if you want to get over youve gotta kill the guy. that the deal. its not like it was a con on some poor unsuspecting halfwit, those were in the stands...well most of the time anyways.

not like we could've predicted in the future guys unfit to lace the job guy's boots would be the only ones still watching.

Vader treated them with tender loving care compared to Ronnie Garvin

Yeah that's what I mean, you have to admit everything has gotten a lot "softer" nowadays with this generation in the business. I feel like you're right about that last part and there's definitely a lot of people who wouldn't be able to cut it or handle breaking into the business during that time.

I also should have mentioned Rick Steiner's reputation for fucking up not only job guys but even wrestlers who could be on the upper card as well although I really didn't need to because everyone is well aware of it.

AND IF THEY’RE NOT… THEY WILL BE IN 2 DAYS!

Yesssssss

Outstanding

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yukon John Nord's New Year's Resolutions for 1990 is about as wild as you would expect<br><br>And yes bonus points for Eric Bischoff with his grey hair <a href="https://t.co/J2t65TVIOZ">pic.twitter.com/J2t65TVIOZ</a></p>&mdash; Kris Zellner (@KrisZellner) <a href="https://twitter.com/KrisZellner/status/1541889263477964803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That was a face promo, for the record.

Im gonna get trainwrecked and deliver a steineresque promo for the ages.

That was meant to be in the watchalong thread. I dunno why it's here. WHATEVER WHATEVER I POST WHERE I WANT.

Also LMFAO @ WWE killing off Two Dimes on NXT to write him off.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This might be my new favorite illegal pin ever. <a href="https://t.co/wUWOL5OkUl">pic.twitter.com/wUWOL5OkUl</a></p>&mdash; WCW Deep Cuts (@DeepCutsWCW) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1542331271686356994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The office met with him constantly because he was seriously hurting all the job guys. Thank God (literally) I never had to work with him.</p>&mdash; Chuck Coates (@Maxxcoates) <a href="https://twitter.com/Maxxcoates/status/1542504042756276224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Jesus just let his neck crack back like opening a roll of nickels...that probably looked worse than it was but lol that's getting me pumped to watch the Steiners tonight.

Holy Shit man, apparently Rocky Johnson had 5 more kids. Rock just found out he has 5 half siblings!